Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Fun
  • Rock
  • Thought

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Given

• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Game
  • Child
  • Sound

• I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Know
  • Artist

• To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Size
  • Fat
  • Ducks

• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Illusions

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • World

• Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • World
  • Funny
  • Laughter

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• We have a tough week ahead of us and to get those games out of the way was important. It was easy for us to go up against a team that hasn't even won 20 games. They are playing relaxed and we are fighting to get into the playoffs.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Way

• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I died last night. Seventy years too young.

  

  Colin Thompson
  • Years
  • Young
  • Died

• I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • Important
  • Years
  • Laugh